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InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts - What? Where? Why? Help! - Studies show over and over again that using keyboard shortcuts (KSs) will save you time. Learning them can cause your brain to explode. (Studies haven't been done, but experiential data proves this.) Here's our tips for learning KSs and perhaps more important where they can be found when you've lost control of them.
DDP Releases New InDesign TIPCard
- Our newest TIPCard puts common keyboard commands (KSs) related to file setup and general editing. This are functions you use every time you work on a document, so knowing these KSs will save you lots of time.
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July Holidays
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July 1 - DDP Celebrates 25 years in business!
July 1 - Phil & Sandy celebrate 35 years of marriage! July 1 - Dominion Day in Canada (think US 4th of July, eh?) July 1 - Build a Scarecrow Day (I'm not making this up, folks) July 1 - Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day (Let's celebrate!)
July 1 - Inter-national Joke Day July 12 - Pecan Pie Day (Again, let's celebrate!)
July 16 - Yellow Pig Day (It's a mathematician's holiday celebrating yellow pigs. Those mathematicians are a wild and crazy bunch.)
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DDP Alpha Channel...Alpha channel is a graphics and music term. We'd like to think it's also a communication term. While we know you get your news many places, we hope we'll be one of your alpha channels for all things desktop publishing. Enjoy!
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It's Anniversary Time - Celebrating
25 Years in Business and 35 Years Married
July 1st officially marks Data Designs Publishing's 25th anniversary! We started desktop publishing...well, a long time ago.
Read a bit about DDP's history and the history of desktop publishing here>>
July 1 also officially marks Phil and Sandy's 35th wedding anniversary. Yes, we've been married a long time. We've spent 25 of those 35 years working next to each other most days, and we're still loving it. It still works (most days).
To officially celebrate these two very significant anniversaries, Sandy and Phil will be taking a couple of days off, July 1st and 2nd. In our absence, please feel free to call and talk to Charlotte. She'll be holding down the fort while we're out. If you need to speak to one of us, we'll get back to you on Wednesday. |
New Data Designs Publishing Facebook Page
We've finally joined the 21st century (already in progress) by creating a Facebook page for Data Designs Publishing. Our 25th anniversary seemed the perfect time to do it.
And yes, we know mixing business with pleasure can be dangerous territory. Still, we decided to venture there. Visit our new Facebook page and "Like" us. Liking us will enable you to receives DDP updates in your newsfeed. Why do you care about that? Because we'll be adding tips, news, and quotes to our page regularly - things that will help you work smarter, know more, and enjoy life. And amaze all your friends, of course! We'll also be making exclusive offers through the Facebook page, so put yourself in a position to save some money for you or your company by checking in regularly. (As you can see, we only have a few likes so far, but we just built the page yesterday. We need your help to increase that number so that we can qualify to get analytics for the page - which will result in giving you more content that you want instead of just content.)
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Has the Digital Age Changed
How You Do Business?
"Of course," is the answer. A better question might be how, or how much.
Digiday.com recently published an article with some interesting (some would say alarming) stats about customer interactions with retailers (and how they've changed). It's a compilation of info gleaned from reports by many different sources. For example:
- TechCrunch reports that time spent interacting with mobile apps is 127 minutes per day. Time spent watching television is 168 minutes. (Time spent with mobile apps increased 35% over the past year!)
- Mobile Marketer reports that 57% of consumers will not recommend a business with a poorly designed mobile site.
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If you have a tip you'd like to share, email it to me. If we use it in a newsletter, we'll be happy to give you full credit for it.
Sandra Hovatter, Data Designs Publishing
sandy@DataDesignsPublishing.com
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